Subject: Re: [PATCH] difftool: avoid symlinks when reusing worktree files

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 09:19:10 -0700

David Aguilar <[email-masked]> writes:

>> +	if (-l "$workdir/$file" || ! -e _) {
>>  		return (0, $null_sha1);
>>  	}
>
> The "-e _" shorthand caught my eye ~ I didn't know perl could do that!
> Nice.
>
> Underline is barely mentioned in perlvar, but it's obvious what
> (I think) it means, and since Perl is DWIM, it must be right. ;-)

It is mentioned under -X (i.e. the headline for -f, -e, -d,
... tests) in perlfunc with an interesting example of doing
an explicit stat() first and then running many variants of -X
with _ as the target.